A Study Of Huang Haizhang’s A Brief History Of Chinese Literary Criticism

A Brief History of Chinese Literary Criticism(hereinafter referred to as A Brief History of Literary Criticism)is one of the earliest literary criticism histories published after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.It is different from other huge and complicated tomes on the history of Chinese literary criticism.This book was published by Guangdong People’s Publishing House in 1962 and updated in 1981,incorporating modern literary criticism on the basis of the first edition.The length of the book is relatively short,initially only more than 150,000 words,back to the pre-Qin Dynasty,down to the modern Wang Guowei,concise and to the point.The author Huang Haizhang is one of the pioneers in the study of the history of Chinese literary criticism.He is good at analyzing the literary theories and poetics of different times,and has in-depth discussions on some ancient literary theories and literary principles.His opinions are fair and unique.Taking this book as the research object,this paper makes a comprehensive and in-depth interpretation of its academic characteristics and values,in order to explore the achievements of the little history of Chinese literary criticism since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.Huang Haizhang’s academic thought and writing purpose directly influenced the compilation of this book.His solid academic accumulation and understanding attitude laid the foundation for the book.He integrates his own academic thoughts into the writing process,which can help us to understand and study this book and establish the direction and goal.A Brief History of Chinese Literary Criticism also has its unique features in terms of genre framework and academic path.The compilation style of "complex" not only presents the individual theory of the critic,but also better shows the overall development of the history of Chinese literary criticism.The proper compilation principle reflects the author’s ingenious design and provides a new reference for later scholars to write the history of Chinese literary criticism.Attaching importance to the theory of poetry criticism,ignoring the theoretical materials such as novels and operas,inheriting the tradition of ancient Chinese literary criticism,thus grasping and elaborating the focus of Huang Haizhang’s literary criticism.A Brief History of Chinese Literary Criticism also includes many categories and unique insights.In expounding the critical theories of different theorists,Huang Haizhang also implicitly examined the categories of ancient literary theory,such as the categories of traditional literary theory "marvelous" and "artistic conception".At the same time,Huang Haizhang has a lot of insights,highlighting his academic personality.The first is the criticism of Liu Xie’s literary theories.Firstly,it combs the research of Liu Xie’s literary criticism in the early critical history,then discusses the research of Liu Xie’s book of Huang Haizhang,focusing on Liu Xie’s literary advocacy and criticism of "six views".Second,this book is dedicated to Liu Xizai and Wang Guowei set up a separate chapter to study their literary criticism theory as a whole.A Brief History of Chinese Literary Criticism by Huang Haizhang,as a concise history of criticism,plays an important role in promoting the discipline construction of the history of Chinese literary criticism in the 20 th century,but it also has some shortcomings,such as limiting the historical narration under the specific background of The Times and ignoring the theoretical study of novels and operas.At the same time,the small history of criticism represented by A Brief History of Chinese Literary Criticism is small in scale and short in length,which has not attracted much attention from academic research for a long time.Now it is necessary to re-examine this problem.The purpose of this paper is to recognize Huang Haizang’s unique academic path and research methods,as well as his unique insight in critical theory,and to explore the limitations of Huang Zhu and its implications in the history of contemporary Chinese literary criticism.With its unique research methods and theoretical propositions,A Brief History of Chinese Literary Criticism broadens the field of view and path of the study of the history of literary criticism,and makes a beneficial contribution to the development of the discipline of the history of literary criticism and the modernization of the study of literary theory.